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4" x 2-1/2" Cartes-de-Visite of Fisk, Stokes and Mansfield.
Images of James Fisk, His Murderer, And the Woman Who Inspired the Murder [Murder]. Fisk, James, Jr. [1835-1872] Stokes, Edward [1841-1901]. Mansfield, Helen Josephine, "Josie" [1847-1931]. [3-1/2" x 2-1/4" Cartes-de-Visite of Fisk, Stokes and Mansfield Mounted on 4" x 2-1/2" Cards]. [New York?, c.1870]. Light toning and soiling to edges..... More
A Most Horrible Murder, Committed by John Holloway Upon the Body of...
Murder and Mutilation in Brighton [Broadside]. [Murder]. Holloway, John [d.1831]. A Most Horrible Murder, Committed by John Holloway Upon the Body of His Wife, by Cutting Off Her Head, Legs, and Arms. [London]: J. Catnach, [1831]. 15" x 10" broadside hinged (with two small circular stickers at top-edge) onto 24"..... More
An Act for Better Preventing the Horrid Crime of Murder, 1752.
First Printing of the Act that Introduced Anatomization [Great Britain]. [Murder Act of 1751]. An Act for Better Preventing the Horrid Crime of Murder [Drop-Head Title]. At head: Anno Vicesimo Quinto Georgii II. Regis. London: Printed by Thomas Baskett and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1752. [ii], 739-742 pp..... More
Shocking Murder at Todmordon, London, c.1850.
A Gruesome Revenge Murder in Lancashire [Broadside]. [Murder]. Weatherill, Miles [d.1868]. Shocking Murder at Todmordon. [London]: W.S. Fortey, Printer & Publisher, 2 & 3, Monmouth Ct., [1867]. 10" x 7-1/2" broadside mounted on 10-1/2" x 8" sheet, summary of case in two columns and verse text in three columns below..... More
In Memoriam, Verses Written on the Barrowford Tragedy, March 4th 1897.
"Not Content With Strife, He Took Away a Life" [Broadside]. [Murder]. [Nowell, Sarah Ann]. In Memoriam, Verses Written on the Barrowford Tragedy, March 4th 1897. [Barrowford, Lancashire (?): S.n., 1897]. 11-1/4" x 8-1/4" broadside, woodcut vignette of a tomb above large headline, main text printed in parallel columns, thick black..... More
Three of a Kind, Dr Graves, Isaac Sawtell, Frank C Almy.
Three Famous Murders of the Early 1890s [Murder]. Graves, Thomas Thatcher [1841-1893]. Sawtell, Isaac [d.1891]. Almy, Frank C. [1857-1892]. Three of a Kind: Dr. Graves, Isaac Sawtell, Frank C. Almy. Laconia, NH: John J. Lane, c.1893. 48 pp. Woodcut text illustrations. Octavo (9" x 5-3/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in pictorial wrappers..... More
Execution of James Anderson and David Glen, Who Suffered at Ayr....
"With An Account Of Their Behaviour in Confinement And The Prayer Which They Put Up On The Scaffold" [Broadside]. [Murder]. Anderson, James [d. 1823]. Glen, David [d. 1823]. Execution of James Anderson and David Glen, Who Suffered at Ayr, On Friday the 12th of December, 1823, For the Murder of..... More
Execution of the Mannings, London, 1849.
A Contemporary Verse Account of the Mannings and Their Crime [Broadside]. [Murder]. Manning, Frederick George [1820-1849]. Manning Marie DeRoux [d. 1849]. Execution of the Mannings. [London: S.n., 1849]. 10" x 7-1/4" broadside. eight-stanza verse text in two columns separated by typographical rule below headline and woodcut execution scene surrounded by..... More
Attempted Murder of a Wife by Her Husband, Near Banbury, Oxfordshire
Unrecorded Account of an Attempted Murder in Oxfordshire [Broadside]. [Murder]. [Great Britain]. Attempted Murder of a Wife by Her Husband, Near Banbury, Oxfordshire. Reading: Jones, Printer, [1849]. 14-1/2" x 10" broadside, triple-column text below headline and woodcut image of a man stabbing a woman flanked by six stanzas of verse..... More
Life and Confession of Ann Walters, The Female Murderess!...
"The Female Murderess!": Driven by the Culture of Slavery (Two Full-Page Woodcut Illustrations) [Murder]. [Walters, Ann Smith (1812-1844)]. [Dudley, Enos G. (d.1849)]. [Runkle, Mary]. Life and Confession of Ann Walters, The Female Murderess! Also the Execution of Enos G. Dudley, At Haverhill, N.H., May 23d, 1849. To Which is Added..... More
The Letters and Correspondence of Mrs. Virginia Myers, Which Have...
A Murder in Richmond: McDade 711 [Murder]. Myers, William R., Defendant. The Letters and Correspondence of Mrs. Virginia Myers, (Which Have Never Before Been Published or Even Read in Court,) to Dudley Marvin Hoyt, Who was Murdered at Richmond, Sept. 28th, 1846, by Wm. R. Myers, and Two Others. Together..... More
An Account of the Shocking Murder, Committed on the Body of John...
A Murder Related to Labor Unrest in the Newcastle Mines [Broadside]. [Murder]. [Great Britain]. An Account of the Shocking Murder, Committed on the Body of John Errington, A Bound Pitman, At Hetton Colliery, In the County of Durham, On Saturday April 19, 1832, By Receiving Two Shots, One of Them..... More
Canton's Great Tragedy, the Murder of George D. Saxton, together with
Murder in Canton, Ohio: McDade 334 [Murder]. [Albaugh, Thurlow K. (1868-1937)]. George, Annie, E. [b.1859]. Saxton, George D. [1848-1898]. Canton's Great Tragedy: The Murder of George D. Saxton, Together with a History of the Arrest and Trial of Annie E. George, Charged with the Murder. With Biographical Sketches of George..... More
Life, Adventures, Strange Career and Assassination of Col James Fisk..
Jealousy, Fraud Accusations and Murder: McDade 919 [Murder]. [Stokes, Edward S. (1841-1901)]. [Fisk, James, Jr. (1835-1872)]. Life, Adventures, Strange Career, And Assassination of Col. James Fisk, Jr. The Fisk-Stokes Tragedy. All about Miss Mansfield. Those Rich, Rare, And Racy Letters and Many Oddities Now for the First Time Made Public..... More
The Authentic Life of Mrs Mary Ann Bickford, Who Was Murdered in...
The First Use of Sleepwalking as a Defense in a Murder Trial [Murder]. [Bickford, James, Compiler]. The Authentic Life of Mrs. Mary Ann Bickford, Who Was Murdered in the City of Boston, On the 27th of October, 1845. Comprising a Large Number of the Original Letters and Correspondence Never Before..... More
The Maybrick Case, English Criminal Law. London and New York, 1892.
A Contemporary Opinion on a Sensational 1889 Murder by a Female Physician Densmore, Helen. [Maybrick Murder Case]. The Maybrick Case: English Criminal Law. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.; New York: Stillman & Co., [1892]. 148 pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5"). Stiff textured wrappers, gilt title to front. Some rubbing to..... More
La Vie de Jacques Pierlot, Pretre & Marguillier de la Paroisse de...
Illustrated Account of a Belgian Priest With a Gambling Addiction Who Committed Several Murders [Murder]. [Pierlot, Jacques (1750-1786)]. La Vie de Jacques Pierlot, Pretre & Marguillier de la Paroisse de Vervier, Ville de la Principaute de Liege; Avec tous les Details de son Crime, De sa Degradation, & De son..... More
Abr'm Prescott's Confession of the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran...
"Oh! Lust, Accursed Lust! 'Twas This for Which I Did the Deed" [Broadside]. [Murder]. Private Individual at the Bar. Abr'm Prescott's Confession of the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran of Pembroke, N.H.--June 23, 1833. [Concord, NH.?]: S.n., 1836. 17" x 11-1/2" broadside. Two-columns of verse in twenty stanzas within woodcut..... More
Mr Justice Precedent. 21" x 15-1/2" gouache image on 26" x 19-1/2"
"His Famous Wig Composed Entirely of Split Hairs and Adorned with the Ceremonial Crimson Tape" Robinson, Boardman [1876-1952]. [Becker-Rosenthal Murder Trial]. Mr. Justice Precedent. [New York, 1914]. 21" x 15-1/2" gouache image on 26" x 19-1/2" sheet, image signed twice and inscribed by Robinson, caption in pencil below image, most..... More
Ein Neues Lied Von der Mord-Geschichte des Joseph Miller, Welcher...
Verse Account of a Murder-Suicide in Pennsylvania [Broadside]. [Murder-Suicide]. [Pennsylvania]. [Koppelberger, Johannes]. Ein Neues Lied von der Mord-Geschichte des Joseph Miller, Welcher im Januar 1822, Einer Sonntags Nacht Seine Schwangere Frau unde Zwei Kinder auf eine Grausame Art Ermordete, Und sich Selbst Erhing, Welches Alles, Wie man Glaubt, Aus Armuth..... More